OBS Studio - BEST Streaming Settings for YouTube 2023!

This tutorial will guide you through the best live streaming settings for OBS Studio, and how to stream high quality video to KZbin! This guide was created using the new beta OBS version 29.1 which allows for AV1 encoding, so be sure to use that version and above if you'd like to have those benefits!
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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - OBS version
01:43 - Streaming to KZbin
03:05 - Resolution
05:09 - Stream settings
07:21 - Bitrate
12:28 - Audio
13:35 - Final thoughts
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[@Chiselchip]

Comment below if you'd like to see more videos on OBS Studio! Also share if you've found other settings that work well for different hardware :)

[@jaymasterflash9396]

obs for recording youtube videos. Im trying to do reaction shows and movies. I have a lenova thinkbook 15 with amd ryzen 5. I use a webcam attachment thats 4k 30 fps. I tested my recording and I keep getting video delays.. I say Hi what are you doing? and it takes 5 secs to see that. help lol

[@ThunderZ773]

Is this more constant than Streamlabs ?

[@Chiselchip]

@@ThunderZ773 in my opinion absolutely yes! I used streamlabs for my first two years and definitely glad I switched

[@baby_seek296]

@@Chiselchip Could you send the link?

[@MKUltraMoney]

Great video, thank you!

[@wahyudot]

thank you so much,this is super helpful

[@ahsoka_polo]

Thank you! I stream dead space on Saturday n it was blurry. You just earned an extra sub from me 💯

[@Faresmousa115]

thanks for the help!

[@abbeykgaming]

I just did a simple search on how to stream and yours was among the top. Like bumping into a friend on the street haha! This was a great video. I have MANY obs questions. You should definitely make more of these

[@Chiselchip]

😄 Glad it was helpful! I've had a few more requests so I'll try to do some more for sure!

[@amazingkris]

This was insanely helpful. Thank you, kind sir. Happy new year!

[@Chiselchip]

Happy new year!! Glad the video was helpful:)

[@Cnlne]

WOW i was trying to setup my stresm for a week and your video did the change Finally its Perfect! Thank you this one was very Helpful.

[@Chiselchip]

So glad to hear it worked well!!

[@tuhinfrags]

Very well done video. Gonna try those settings with my new 4070ti

[@Chiselchip]

Sweet! Hope it works well for you! Glad you like the vid :)

[@antoniocalheirosneves]

Thank you.

[@grocal]

Thanks a lot for this vid! I've been streaming on YT lately and was dissatisfied with an overall quality I got. But it turns out I should have switched from 1080p/60 with HEVC and 15Mbit to 1440p/60 AV1 and 15Mbit to get waaaaaaaay better final quality!

[@VRDaD]

Thank you for this. Really helpful. I would like to get into streaming VR content. I am expecting to be a bit more demanding. I generally play wireless so there is a lot of streaming going from the PC to the VR headset and viceversa...if I then have to stream on the internet it gets even more demandng. It would be useful if you could suggest some optimal settings. I got a high end system with a 4090 and I use a Quest 3, wirelessly(Wifi6 router connected to my pc via ethernet cable). My internet is quite fast as well (70-80 Mbps upload). Any suggestion?

[@Chiselchip]

Unfortunately I don't do VR so I wouldn't be totally positive. I'd just set it to something general and play with it from there

[@EkTheGr8]

FINALLY! i could not find clear strait to the point videos for starting my streaming setup WITH top of the line hardware! perfect videos-both this and recording one! thanks

[@Chiselchip]

So glad this one was helpful!

[@EriKantGame]

Super helpful, thanks Chiselchip! OBS can be so daunting to navigate when you're starting out and just trying to hit a comfortable baseline 😔

[@Chiselchip]

Definitely took me a while to get the hang of it for sure haha

[@ManUpAlan]

Great video.. I’ve a 4070 is av1 more taxing on the pc than nvidia nvenc? I’m thinking of using av1 for streaming/recording at the same time

[@Chiselchip]

From my experience it’s actually less taxing

[@xkindnessencex]

i haven't got to test out the settings yet (planning to soon). however, regardless, i just wanted to say thank you for the guide and clear instructions! even after 3 years, this stuff still overwhelms me at times yet i felt like i was able to grasp what was being said! :)

[@Chiselchip]

Thanks!! Hope it works well for you!

[@gbxd]

What bitrate recommendation for 1080p 60fps? Is it still half of your upload speeds?

[@JonesCrimson]

Another Rule of thumb for 1080p 60fps is for every Mbps Upload speed your max goes up 1,000 kbs bitrate. So for 10 Mbps your max is 10,000 and you should aim for 8k or 9k and limit your network usage.

[@LarryMcDonald08]

What mic are you using since its not in front of your face, and yet its picking up the volume really good!!

[@Chiselchip]

I use the Rode NT1

[@VoltaikEntertainment]

You should go over HDR settings.

[@TheSamGoesHam]

5800x CPU and 2070 Super graphics card 16 gbs of ram with upload of speed of 15 mpbs...what settings could I use? i can't figure out how to get a clear stream

[@Cheetsah]

Can you please make a vid on recording settings I need to know which are the best settings to have the best and smoothest quality video, while all at the same time not having to large of a storage size and not affecting my fps.

[@Chiselchip]

Thanks for the comment! definitely some interest in a recording video from a few so I'll do my best to come out with one soon!

[@Cheetsah]

@@Chiselchip ok thanks

[@JusXty9]

i have trouble using HEVC since I always get black screen when I stream in other platforms like facebook

[@studylives1617]

I have 100Mbps Upload speed but i stream at 1080p so what bitrate i should use??

[@GFXSatyamshorts]

Kindly make a dedicated video on davinci resolve export with obs settings which u have made in this video .. ❤ I am from india

[@AnmolCodesofficial]

Mai bhi

[@jinstakill]

Whats the difference between legacy and non legacy?

[@PrestonCTX]

My stream doesn't look smooth or clear... any suggestions

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

01:20 I can't wait for the stable release since there is a fix for a bug in multichannel Audio I detected and reported moths ago.

[@Chiselchip]

Yah that'll be exciting! This version definitely has a lot of great stuff to offer!

[@LayerZlayer2000]

just released by the way

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

@@LayerZlayer2000 yep installed yesterday night (EU Time)

[@LayerZlayer2000]

@@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials yeah didnt knew it until i saw another video and found this aswell installed it straight will be good with my 4090 and ryzen 9 7950x3d

[@LT_Bovi]

hi, i have a problem. when streaming fps game and standing stil it looks nice, but when action starts quallity drops down and its kinda looks blury. any suggestions?

[@Chiselchip]

Sounds like either your bitrate is too low, or your computer doesn't have enough resources to put toward obs so try lowering your resolution

[@iEnjayy]

i have a ryzen 9 cpu & a 3080 GPU , have 2 Monitors both 1440p and i Try to Stream in 1080 to KICK , it looks fine BUT...BUT when i try and record also for a KZbin Upload it just says Encoder Overload. Probably need a 2 PC Setup for that. But for Streaming in 1080 to KICK , my Base should be 1440p right? and the Output should be 1080 cause thats for KICK Correct?

[@Thatthuugdug]

You can find better help if you ask this in OBS forums. Hope this helps, I don’t think you should be overloading with your equipment. Also your base is what you stream on. And you downscale to 1080 that’s your output.

[@chrislyran]

i would like to know your opinion on streaming and recording at the same time in 2k

[@Chiselchip]

great question! Personally, if you have a pc that can handle it, I would do AV1 encoding and set the recording to "use stream encoder" with the same bitrate as your stream (about 8-12 mbps for 2k and av1) and that would probably be the most efficient way to do it

[@GoldSrc_]

You shouldn't use the main profile, it should always be the high one. The main profile is for very old devices, just about any device that can be used to watch streams is able to handle the high profile. Also, do not use full color range, most devices expect a limited range video signal. Messing with that setting can make your stream look washed out or with the contrast way too high.

[@Big_pancake73]

With av1 you can do 1080p fine with 5k bit rate and Hevc...I run av1 on my 7k AMD GPU and run it at 10k on 1440p and its great..I run my other pc which has a 3080 and do 10k with HEVC and it looks great....again both at 1440p stream...I see no need for 4k right now...just me saying that and it is a each his own type of thing..I do a lot of streaming and love how the tech is going....good deal man..

[@Gm12722]

Hi amd 7900xtx is it good for streaming 4k 60fps???

[@rvmajor]

Under audio, then under channels, is stereo better than 5.1? If all other settings are identical to yours.

[@Chiselchip]

Probably better yes, just make sure it's not only coming out of one speaker

[@mahavakyas002]

why use Single Pass instead of Two Pass in "Multipass Mode"? does that affect the stream in any significant way?

[@Chiselchip]

I find that if you have higher end hardware that using multi pass just adds unnecessary computing power and for me it was just better in temperatures of the gpu if I put it to single pass. On a lower end pc it might look better for do 2 passes

[@Aceguns1980]

SO WHAT IF YOU HAVE A 940 Mbps upload speed?

[@CurrentGenGamesWithNick]

when you got 985 mbps on line 51000 4k ?

[@FutureRideshareMillionaire]

I have 800 upload. Would it be unreasonable for me to follow your advice and use 400k bit rate lol

[@Chiselchip]

Yah that would be completely unnecessary! Just if you have low speeds then that's the maximum

[@bosemann]

Broo I don't have Nvidia encoder, I have x264 and quick sync please what do I do because it freezes too

[@Chiselchip]

I'd do 720p and 30fps x264. You can't do much better without a graphics card. It'll be laggy a little

[@vevvex]

Hey! Are you gonna do a video for Twtich?:)

[@Chiselchip]

I could do that at some point! The key changes for twitch is stream in 1080 rather than 4K and use a bitrate of 6000

[@TheKingofHorror]

my bitrates at 2500 kbps which is what it was at default

[@DDD-xx4mg]

My upload speed is 24mb rock solid I think it’s capped to 24mb so I stream at 20mb never had any issues

[@Chiselchip]

Yah as long as it is consistent!! Mine is 40 but jumps all over the place so when I do half at 20 seams to be good for me

[@braidonthorn]

weird... I have av1 for recording but not for streaming Im on an rtx 4060

[@Official-Pizzeria-Unit]

can you make a recording one please

[@Chiselchip]

For sure! it seams like people are finding it helpful so I'd be happy to do a recording tutorial soon :)

[@Official-Pizzeria-Unit]

@@Chiselchip Thank you

[@KHALIFA_GAMINGYT]

BRO IN MY VIDEO ENCODER it's showing 4 options SVT-av1 , AOM AV1, quicksync H.264, QuickSync HEVC AND x264 What should i choose 😢

[@Chiselchip]

what graphics card do you have?

[@khalifa_YT]

it's Showing Two intel UHD Graphics 620 and NVIDIA GeForce Mx130

[@Chiselchip]

@@khalifa_YT ah ok, I'd try hevc then out of those options if you can handle it

[@khalifa_YT]

I will try HEVC broo i will let you know

[@KHALIFA_GAMINGYT]

i tried bro but it's giving me 30 To 40 fps only please help 🥹

[@sv-iy3ff]

can these settings work if you streaming on twich or other platforms or is this specific to just youtube?

[@Chiselchip]

They will eventually work on twitch, twitch is a bit behind youtube on the formats that they accept, so as of now these settings will work, but just use 6000kbps and h.264 encoding for twitch because they don't accept av1 yet

[@Cnlne]

h.265 over nvenc? (dual pc setup) Im struggling with quality its a bit blurry 200mb download and 27mb upload idk what im doing wrong on youtube it looks good but on twitch i cant get it right

[@Chiselchip]

for twitch you have to do entirely different settings. Twitch is way behind youtube, so you gotta use h264 and 6000kbps @@Cnlne

[@Cnlne]

@@Chiselchip will try that tomorrow for sure thank you.

[@Cnlne]

@@Chiselchip so i tried these settings an it looks better. But i still got one single problem the image looks so weird on obs and on 4k utility its like antialiasing is missing and the colors look weird aswell do you know what could cause that? ps: it worked before and looked clean but now its just a mess i tried to fix it for like 4hours and couldnt

[@makotomurazakieng6219]

the problem with obs is it use way more ressources than streamlabs and can cause issues while recording gameplays, since i don't have most of the stuff you are showing i don't know what settings i should use on streamlabs

[@Chiselchip]

I used to use streamlabs but one works way better for me and I don’t support the shady stuff that goes on with streamlabs. Unfortunately I can’t help you unless you’re using obs

[@FateXO]

you got it mixed up streamlabs is the one that is bloated not obs

[@botlifegamer7026]

When I use AV1 my stream runs for 3 minutes then bitrate goes to 137 and stays there. I know it's not my connection cause x265 has no issues only AV1 for streaming.

[@Chiselchip]

is your bitrate set less than half of what your upload speed is? i had that same issue... my upload speed is 40mbps and doing 20000kbps upload was too much and when i went down to 18000 is started working fine. That's the trick with av1 is that you have to go lower with bitrate because it's definitely more picky

[@botlifegamer7026]

@@Chiselchip I tried 2mbps up to 8mbps all do the same H264 and 265 work fine it's only this codec that drops all connection

[@Chiselchip]

@@botlifegamer7026 weird... not sure what to tell you then, I'll let you know what I find out! What resolution and fps are you streaming at?

[@botlifegamer7026]

@@Chiselchip I was testing 1080p 60fps and 1440p both same issues.

[@Chiselchip]

@@botlifegamer7026 what’s your upload speed and bitrate ?

[@GG.Evil77]

where can i check the stream code? or something like that

[@Chiselchip]

The stream key is on your youtube live page

[@GG.Evil77]

@@Chiselchip Thank you

[@Gamova91]

How do i turn on beta mode? it's greyed out

[@Chiselchip]

As of now the full release is out so no more need to use the beta. If you’re having issues with it though you can download the bra version directly from GitHub, and there’s a few good videos on how to do that

[@Gamova91]

@@Chiselchip Thank you! 💪🏻

[@Louukang]

everyone always explains everything except for Pyscho Visual tuning and what it does and where it benefits

[@Chiselchip]

Pretty much just enhances the image. Simplest way of putting it, it uses AI to produce a slightly sharper image. Basically uses your encoder to optimize the use of bitrate for a perceived, sharper image quality.

[@Louukang]

@@Chiselchip i thought it favorited smooth surfaces or made the entire picture blurry instead of just an area

[@Chiselchip]

@@Louukang that is usually affected by the encoder and bitrate you set

[@ItsThatGuyWeeb]

Another guy tested in both on and off, and your encoder utilizes it whether you enable it or not if you're on an Nvidia or AMD encoder, so checking it doesn't hurt anything

[@MiGzZ_X1]

My upload speed is 214.6 what should be my bitrate for 1080 60? Help anyone

[@SantistaFighter]

I believe the max in OBS is 90000 Kbbs, which is 90 Mbps, so you should be able to max it out!

[@MiGzZ_X1]

@@SantistaFighter :/ i hope so all i want to do is stream

[@prestonarsenault9975]

So Im on TelusPure fiber, and my upload speed in Kbps is 466341. Should I literally juat devide thia in half and use 233,170 Kbps bitrate? That seems foolish. 😂

[@Chiselchip]

Definitely not haha. That was the suggestion for the maximum bitrate but if you’re upload speed is that high definitely no need to max out your potential haha

[@esariasesarias3793]

How is posible to have 40 mbps upload in 2023?

[@Cute_Nerdy]

Why not? Atm Ive 37 Mbit/s and I wait that I can use fiber 100 Mbit/s

[@LaggingDigits]

On OBS 29.1.2 there is no av1 so...

[@Chiselchip]

Probably don’t have a graphics card capable of supporting it. It won’t show up unless you do

[@LaggingDigits]

@@Chiselchip yeah just checked, nvidia 30 series dont support encoding :C

[@coolGUGOclan]

good job, but made video with action game your games is slow not good examples

[@Chiselchip]

all of this applies to action games as well as I said in the video. Glad it was helpful though

[@Silent-COD]

I have 900 Mbps